Kranky Klaus, 2002–03. Video, color, sound; 26:10 min. Soundtrack by the Melvins. Commissioned and produced by Artangel, London; courtesy Artangel, London • Jamie documents the pagan myth of Krampus—a shaggy beast said to roam the valleys of Austria on the night of December 6—with a score by the Melvins.

LIVE PERFORMANCE AT SYMPHONY SPACE
Cameron Jamie, The Melvins, and Keiji Haino
WEDNESDAY, MAY 17; 8PM

Post-punk band the Melvins plays the live score to Kranky Klaus/BB/Spook House; avant-garde musician Keiji Haino performs to Jamie’s most recent film, JO.
The performance will occur at Symphony Space, located at 2537 Broadway at 95th Street; tickets available at www.symphonyspace.org.
Presented in conjunction with the 2006 Biennial.

PROGRAM 1
SATURDAY, MARCH 4; SUNDAY, MAY 14
2PM

FILMS WITH MUSIC FROM CHINA HAITI JAMAICA
NORTH AMERICAOrganized by Mathias Poledna in conjunction with his film installation Version on view in the 2006 Biennial, the program will feature Maya Deren’s 1948 movement study Meditation on Violence and Poledna’s Minimal dance sequence, Sufferers’ Version.

PROGRAM 3: VARIETIES OF SLOW
SUNDAY, MARCH 12; SATURDAY, MAY 6
11:30AM–6PM

Andrew Lampert

Lampert’s triple-screen installation is an “ultimate slowing down”—a shot of book spines is projected over a variable period of time. Shown alongside a sound work inspired by Morton Feldman. A performance with cellist Okkyung Lee follows at 5pm on May 6.

Piano and String Quartet Piano and String Quartet, 2004. Sound work on two CDs; duration variable Okkyung Duet, 2004–05. Live film and music performance

PROGRAM 4: IRA COHEN FRIDAY, MARCH 17; FRIDAY, MAY 12
7PM

Poet, photographer, and filmmaker Ira Cohen reads from his work, along with a special screening of his psychedelic film The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda (1968).

PROGRAM 5: EXPERIMENTAL ISATURDAY, MARCH 18; SUNDAY, APRIL 23
2PM

Michael Snow

WVLNT (Wavelength for Those Who Don’t Have the Time. Originally 45 Minutes, Now 15!), 1966–67/2003. Digital video, color, sound; 15 min. Courtesy Jack Shainman Gallery, New York • A contemporary spin on Snow’s best known film, Wavelength.

SSHTOORRTY, 2005. 35mm film transferred to video, color sound; 20 min. Courtesy Jack Shainman Gallery, New York • Snow’s most recent work is a short story doubled onto itself: a narrative filmed in one take then cut into two and superimposed repeatedly.

David Gatten, The Great Art of Knowing, 2004. 16mm film (reversal), black-and-white, silent; 37 min. • The most recent installment in Gatten’s series inspired by the William Byrd library focuses on Athanasius Kircher’s seventeenth-century encyclopedia and Evelyn Byrd’s for-
bidden romance.

13 Lakes, 2005. 16mm film, color, sound; 135 min. • Benning’s contemplative, mesmerizing study records lakes from Arizona to Alaska in static takes and documents subtle changes in the water and sky over an extended period of time.

One Way Boogie Woogie/27 Years Later, 1978/2005. 16mm film, color, sound; 121 min. • A shot-by-shot restaging of a 1977 film documenting his decaying industrial hometown, Benning traces urban renewal and the passage of the filmmaker’s own life.* There will be a 15-minute intermission between the two films.

PROGRAM 7: POLITICS IPROGRAM SATURDAY, MARCH 25; SUNDAY, MAY 72PMPICTURES FROM AFGHANISTAN

Siddiq Barmak, Osama, 2003. 35mm film, color, sound; 83 min. • Studio Film Club presents Barmak’s Osama, the first feature film made in post-Taliban Afghanistan. *See below (April 15–16) for further Studio Film Club screenings.

4PMTHE TIME WE KILLED

Jennifer Reeves, The Time We Killed, 2004. 16mm film, black-and-white, sound; 94 min. • Set in the aftermath of September 11, Reeves’s experimental feature is about an agoraphobic poet whose mental turmoil parallels the events taking place outside.

PROGRAM 8: TAYLOR MEADSATURDAY, APRIL 1; SUNDAY, APRIL 302PM

Actor, poet, and film legend Mead reads poetry live. The program also includes Excavating Taylor Mead (2005), a film by William A. Kirkley that documents his life.

PROGRAM 9: POLITICS IISUNDAY, APRIL 2; SATURDAY, APRIL 292PMTHIS LAND IS YOUR LAND

Lori Cheatle and Daisy Wright, This Land Is Your Land, 2004. Video, color, sound; 87 min. • Cheatle and Wright explore the influence of corporations on everyday life in the U.S. through the voices of people from across the country.

4PMGOING UPRIVER

George Butler, Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry, 2004. 35mm film, black-and-white and color, sound; 89 min. • Released at the height of the 2004 presidential campaign, Butler’s film recounts his longtime friend and former nominee John Kerry’s engagement in the Vietnam War, documenting his journey from youthful idealism to disillusionment.

PROGRAM 10: STUDIO FILM CLUB ISATURDAY, APRIL 15A selection of features from Peter Doig and Che Lovelace’s film series screened in Doig’s Trinidad studio.

Jimmie Durham, La Poursuite du bonheur (The Pursuit of Happiness), 2003. 35mm film, color, sound; 13 min. • A fictional Native American artist played by Albanian filmmaker Anri Sala makes it to the top after a successful show of art made from trash.